Daily U.S Casualties 5/14/2004

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Daily U.S Casualties 5/14/2004


As of Thursday, 773 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Department of Defense.

Of those, 563 died as a result of hostile action and 210 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Poland, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major com bat operations in Iraq had ended, 635 U.S. soldiers have died -- 454 as a result of hostile action and 181 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers.

The latest deaths reported by U.S. Central Command:


A soldier was killed Wednes day when an explosive struck a convoy in Baghdad.


Two marines were killed in Iraq's Anbar province, one Wednesday and the second on Thursday.


There were no new identifications reported by the Pentagon on Thursday.

[teryang]

1. Two profound injuries were reported

...the links were on lunaville.org. One profound head injury and another a coma.